I Decided To Be A Teacher...
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On May 16th, 2015, Brian Buckley interviewed Mabel Blanks in Hudson, NY. Mabel worked as a teacher at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson.
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A Tangle of Circumstance
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Tobi Jacobi writes about girls at the Training School in the 1920’s caught in “a tangle of circumstance” as they navigated the everyday challenges of adolescence and the pressures of emerging adulthood alongside charges of incorrigibility and immorality.
Read MoreA Home Away From Home
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Excerpt from an oral history with Jennifer Vinson, who was incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1970s.
Read MoreA Father Figure
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Excerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Honig, who worked as a social worker at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Searching for Ella
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New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreA Real Family
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Excerpt from an oral history with Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law & Justice and former employee at the Hudson Girls' Training School.
Read MoreWho is Training Whom?
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A note and poem from Frances Drabick, a writer whose mother worked at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s.
Read MoreWhere is Margo Bake?
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Margo Bake was five months pregnant when she arrived at the Hudson Girls' Training School. She ran away in 1949, and now her son is trying to find her.
Read MoreTraining School: Punishment or Protection?
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A parole agent's presentation at a New York conference in 1905 stirs a debate about the Hudson Training School for Girls: Punishment or Protection?
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